San Francisco vindicator., 1887-06-11
A Playful GOAT.
How He Entertained a Milwaukee
Lady and Her Cavalier.

/ Once in awhile thing will happen OF
the street so ridiculous as to cause those
who witness it to remember 1t to theil
| dying day. Indeed, so comical Is the sight
that were the to call it to mind at q
fnnelal, they would laugh in spite of them
selves. Such a scene was recently wit.
messed over on the West Side by street
ear load of people, as well as several
pedestrians who happened along at that
| momeut. A prominent West End society
lady was walking quietly along in an alb
sent-minded sort of way, when suddenly a
handsome large goat of the Billy =
species hove in sight and came galloping
toward the lady with an I-own-the-street-
expression in bis large, liquid, fawn-like
eyes. Anyone at all familiar with the
habits of our American goat is aware that
in case of this kind the safest place to
get is on top of high board fence, but the
lady in question had probably never asso-
ciated with goats to any great extent, and
SO when he came charging down upon her,
she quietly backed up in corner OF the
fence. spread her umbrella before her as
she would a shield, aud brav,ly stood her
ground, undoubtedly thinking that the act
would frightt his goatship, and leave r
i'll foil possession OF the field. Those who
witnessed the charge say that on sight OF
the umbrella the goat fairly smiled ior JOY,
but whether that be SO or not is hard to
say maybe they imagined that he smiled,
but nevertheless, he raised upon his hind
legs as if he enjoyed tie joke hug, ly, and
then as though changing his II ind he sud-
denly straig hten, d out as stiff as froz IL
cat, and made dead ceuter shot upon the
umbrelia with his head. 1t was very evil
dent that the lady was unprepared d for this,
for she got down upon all fours and yelled
like a Comanche Indian with flock of
hornets browsing upon different parts OF
his anatomy. A gentleman, also well
known in society, came rushing up at this
moment and without paying any attention
to the goat, who Was quietly munching
away upon the contents OF one of the lady s
packages proceeded TO assist the unfortunate
lady to her feet. The goat seemed 10 know
what was coming. and watched the man
out of the corner of his eyes till his posi-
ton was such that we'll directed blow
from behind would drive the man head
first through the fence. As the man was
just about to lift the lady to her feet the
goat seemed to be satisfied with his posi-
ton, and after biting off the garment that
he was chewing, part of which was already
down his throat, he snorted, shook his
head, and shot through the air with swift
ness that made the wind fairly whistle as it
blew through his whiskers. There was q
muffied sound not unlike the proverbial
" dull thud, and once more the lady bit
the dust, while the only thing that saved
the gentleman who 80 gallantly came to the
rescue from having broken head was his
plug hat, which came between his cranium
and the fence. Once more the lady yelled
from do y to high c., while the man said
$50 boss, so boss" but "Billy" wasn't
that kind of a boss. He seemed to feel
insulted to think that anybody would
spring foreign language upon him, and
to demonstrate his feelings he let go again
just as the gentleman was trying to arise,
and basted him i'll the same locality as on
the former trip. Probably if it hadn't
been for the car driver the goat would
have been playing polo with the lady and
gentleman yet, but few well-di-rected
blows from that worthy's whip soon drove
"Billy' from the field, and the couple were
allowed to HE themselves to their respect
i've homes. slightly disfgured, but still
able to walk